The past week has seen global top three firm Latham & Watkins hire Vinson & Elkins’ former China co-head David Blumental in Hong Kong, as Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) takes on DLA Piper’s Singapore corporate head Sheela Moorthy and big six Australian firm Clayton Utz ends its association in Hong Kong with Haley & Co.
Blumental’s practice covers cross-border M&A, joint ventures, project development and financing, and private equity investments focusing on oil and gas, LNG, infrastructure and mining. He has worked in China, North and South America, Africa, Russia and the CIS, Southeast Asia and Australia.
